The Dillon tribune., 1887-09-23
c.! TIE POTOMAC.
Campaign Of South Mountain
and tho Antietam.
M'CLELLAl1'S LAST BATTLE.
Lees Invasion Of MARYLAND
Twenty-Five Years Ago.

How Stonewall Jackson's Mem SANG
my Maryland" ON tho Potomac.
"The Lord Bless Your Ragged. Dizzy
souls'''-Lee's Lost Dispatch.Battls
Of tho Threo Mountain Passes-Cap.
ture Of Harper's Ferry by the Confetl-
erates-The sunken Road ut sharps-
burg-Dunker Church.
In the CONSERVATION that reigned ct Wash
anSton after the second battle Of Bull Run,
Aug 50, 1862, Halleck wrote O hasty note 70
Mcclellan, as follows: "You will retain the
command OF everything in this vicinity not
temporarily to be Pope,s army in the field.
beg Of you to assist me in this crisis with
your ability and experience"
Mcclellan, at the time Of receiving this
note, was not in command Of ANYTHING to
speak of. His army had been mostly sent to
PorN In Virginia. Halleck's order meant
that Mcclellan was to take command of tho
defenscs of the city OF Washington, and that
Immediately.
After the bloody fight Of Chantilly, Sept.
!, Gen. Pope's Union army-what was left of
it-strnggled into Washington, ragged, foot
sore, and half starved. They were allowed
TO rest and pull themselves together again
Tor few days within the intrenchments of
tne city. Meantime, Pope once more re-
quested to be relieved Of his command and
sent back west. His request was allowed.
sept. he turned his face westward, and his
back OH That eastern army which he believed
mad never supported him sincerely. Many
OF HIS c"u''trynlen shared tho same opinion.
1t "as declared that had Mcclellan hurried
lr"aS''ns and Summers corps forward to
the support of Pope, as he had been ordered
to 'lo, the Union defeat ut tho second BulI
i.nn would not have happened. Horace
Greeley, III his "American Conflict" says so
IL - r!any words. Hc writes: "Iiad thew
been there two days earlier, and had Porter
no. "I"l then condcsce,ded to obey nm order.
; ; -, '.:c:t might have been transformed
- any rate, whosesoever the fault, Popes
C.o''!y ana unsatisfactory campaign was
o''". Lis star in the east had Cons down.
~ - eyes OF the country onco moro turned to
l.. ..an: Those first years of the wnr
W. - on the Union side, a desperate hunting
H:''. =, President Lincoln and Gen. Hal
Irr.. paced Mcclellan again nj the heal a1 ~
a'' ''.' eastern army. They personally calletl
81 house and asked him to tnkc conn,o"i
a::":n. The Army OF Virginia was mo- morc'
n..a d. .ho I: ors:''ized Army Of the Potomac
10 upon its ruins.
Tao army in Washington having rested
$ ''.'n'' ! as inc II body OF fighting men NJ
, ~" Rc,t brought back their old spirits.
ass poured in from nll quarters, and soo,,
t.e skeletnnizel regiments Sent. I
an ied out Of Washington an army
. @.:'ns A new campaign was to re-
~, r, "Hl"en"e OF the country in her
80, Vas Lift in command of the defeuscs
'''>.s!n ton. Mcclellan lc,l out from the
to FIRST, Second, Sixth, Ninth and
TN army corps, commanded respect.
" hy Hcokcr, Sumner, Franklin, Reno
H. .l!nst'cla. Gen. Coucli,s division of the
i"H,n corps was attached to tho Sixth
H'';I' :; , i"rter, wlth his Fifth army corps,
} " ... Aro.tIlan sept; II. The total strength
- icn.i army. Burnside commanded
!!o r'.,ht, summer HE center and Franklin
tn' IT, Gen. Alfred Pleasonton had charge
OF 1t" cavalry. Ii tuis order tho army Of
.!io iMo!iar advanced once more to try con
e,as'ois est with Lee and h men. They did not
not long ill they found out. '''0